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WASHINGTON -- In a sign of the growing unrest on the left, a plurality of Democratic congressional aides surveyed by CQ Roll Call last month said the party should replace Nancy Pelosi as leader whether Democrats win a House majority in November or not.

The Capitol Insiders Survey, which CQ Roll Call emailed to aides on July 13 and remained open...Read more

WASHINGTON –– President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday that Donald Trump Jr. met Russian representatives in June 2016 at Trump Tower "to get information on an opponent," but denied that his son is in legal trouble.

That contradicted Trump's past statements on the meeting's purpose and was his most explicit declaration yet that his eldest ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Starting with Watergate in the 1970s, four presidents -- Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and now Donald Trump -- have faced criminal investigations into their actions led by special prosecutors. For Nixon and Clinton, those inquiries led to impeachment charges in Congress.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- President Donald Trump returned to Northeast Pennsylvania on Thursday night to savor his 2016 victory, rehash familiar grievances with the "fake news" that he says refuses to credit his successes, and to stump for U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, the Republican trying to defeat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey.

WASHINGTON -- The White House put five top national security officials before cameras in the briefing room Thursday afternoon to stress -- as President Donald Trump still has not -- how seriously the administration is taking the threat of Russia's ongoing interference in U.S. elections.

WASHINGTON -- It could be late October before senators can access records from Judge Brett Kavanaugh's time in the White House, the U.S. National Archives said Thursday, potentially throwing a wrench into GOP plans to quickly hold a vote on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump said Thursday the family separation policy pursued by her father's administration was a "low point" of her government service.

"That was a low point for me, as well. I feel very strongly about that," Trump, a White House adviser, said at an Axios event in Washington. "And I am very vehemently against family separation...Read more

A special election next week in Ohio's 12th Congressional District is the last big electoral test before November's election, a showdown in a once deep-red suburban House seat that Donald Trump won just two years ago by 11 points.

WASHINGTON -- Escalating his feud with the influential conservative donor Koch brothers, President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed remarks by Charles Koch as "ridiculous" and suggested he puts foreign workers over American ones.

Trump's Twitter strike on Charles Koch comes two days after he went to war with the libertarian-leaning megadonors...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Amid increased warnings of Russian interference in the midterm elections -- and evidence that hackers are targeting candidates -- congressional campaigns are trying to balance cybersecurity with the demands of competitive contests.

That's especially difficult for small House campaigns. But experts warn that such campaigns, ...Read more

MIAMI -- A journalist's interview 20 years ago with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is making a return to the airwaves -- not that she's happy about it.

As Maria Elvira Salazar runs to replace the retiring U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress, an opponent has highlighted cordial excerpts from a rare sit-down she scored in the mid 1990s with ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Robert Mueller appear to be nearing the final stages of negotiations over whether the president will sit for questioning as the two sides continue jockeying over the scope of a possible interview.

Mueller's team responded earlier this week to a proposal Trump's lawyers submitted...Read more

WASHINGTON--President Donald Trump may be known for flip-flopping on issues, but he hasn't backed away from his lofty goals in outer space. His push for a military "space force" and boots on the Red Planet has some in Congress trying to bring him back to Earth.

As senators heard Wednesday about NASA's "search for life" in the galaxy, some ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A comment by President Donald Trump's attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani has focused attention on a previously unknown and potentially significant event in the timeline being investigated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

In a television interview Monday, Giuliani disclosed a meeting that took place June 7, 2016, involving seven...Read more